Will Trump's Electric Vehicle Order Kill EV's?
One of the executive orders President Trump signed on Monday calls for ending federal subsidies to and preferences for electric vehicles. With numerous media reports that EV sales were already tanking,...
View ArticleWhy Jews Are Fleeing the West
Jewish history has long been defined by migratory movements away from trouble and towards safer places. Over the past half millennia, the safest harbours for ‘the world’s foster children’, as David...
View ArticleSheds and Living Life On the Street
I had the privilege of seeing the gorgeous photography show Out on the Street: The Dining Sheds & Empty Streets of New York, 2020-2024, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The show showcased...
View ArticleRMI Led the Push to Ban Gas Stoves
Since 2020, the Rocky Mountain Institute has been hyping bogus claims about the alleged danger of natural gas stoves. That year, the Colorado-based group claimed that gas stoves“release toxic...
View ArticleCalifornia Governor Newsom has Positioned the State to be a National Security...
California is home to 9 International airports, 41 Military airports, 3 of the largest shipping ports in America, as well as more than 30 million registered vehicles, all of which cannot operate...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Housing Problems Require a Better Solution than Densify,...
The Palisades and Eaton fires represent thousands of personal tragedies, but they also constitute a collective disaster, adding new housing shortages to California’s already massive shortfall— a...
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European Stagnation Will Lead to Policy Shifts
There is currently a significant shift happening in the USA, with cuts to government expenditure, and ambitions to reduce the regulatory burden. This creates institutional pressure for reforms of...
View ArticleImmigration the American Way
As the U.S. southern border begins to function once again, it’s time to consider what kind of immigration policy we should adopt. President Trump’s move to deport huge populations, upwards of 10...
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More on Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration
Three weeks ago I wrote a piece about the role that a “Rust Belt Diaspora,” or the people who relocated from Rust Belt to Sun Belt states over the last 50 years, could play in Rust Belt revitalization....
View ArticleFamilies and Transportation
On his second day in office, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy directed federal transportation agencies to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national...
View ArticleHow Do YIMBYs Respond To Housing Markets With *No* Demand?
I’ve had my differences with the YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement. Over the years I’ve writtenmultiplepieces raising a position on zoning reform that rarely gets discussed– upzoning can open up the...
View ArticleOhio's Gritty Fight to Reverse Decadence
Last week, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice President J.D. Vance reaffirmed the Trump administration’s commitment to ensuring that advanced AI systems are developed domestically using...
View ArticleDOGE is Waging a Class War on America’s New Clerisy
The ever-mounting hysteria over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seems to largely be coming from that large sector of Americans who work for, or in other ways feed from,...
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Let Them Eat Solar Panels (and Efficiency)
In 2013, the World Bank declared it would stop funding coal projects and would only “in rare circumstances” provide financial support for new coal plants. It also said it would “scale up efforts to...
View ArticleTech Bros Have Stolen Austin's Soul
It looms, all glamour and glass, like a strange Wellsian monster. Floor by floor it comes, casting the Colorado River in shadow as it goes. By the time it’s finished, sometime next year, it’ll be the...
View ArticleThe Revival of Black Town Centers
In honor of Black History Month, I annually write some piece that honors the significance and impact of the contributions of Black people on the American urban environment. In the past I’ve written...
View ArticleJewish Geography Points South
You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!”The Ottoman sultan Bayezid II is said to have made this disparaging remark about Spain’s Catholic...
View ArticleBritian is Committing "National Economic Suicide"
If you want to know what’s happening in a place, ask a cab driver.On a Sunday afternoon, during a short ride to the British Museum, I asked our cabbie about his energy bills and what he thinks of the...
View ArticleCalifornia Now at the Heart of the Battle Against Woke Anti-Semitism
When affirmative action, the predecessor of DEI, was first implemented in the early 1970s, the goal was to address cruel centuries of oppression of African Americans. It was widely supported by many...
View ArticleGet Your Rust Belt Education, Right Here
During its run, I absolutely loved the HBO series The Wire. It was a fascinating show that provided deep insight into the institutional corrosion that felled post-industrial cities like Baltimore. Each...
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